Midwestern farmers who say yes to solar power face neighbors’ wrath

Midwestern farmers who say yes to solar power face neighbors’ wrath

When Michigan farmer Clara Ostrander heard about the benefits of hosting a solar energy project, she remembered something her father had told her four days before he died: Don’t sell the farm. Keep it in the family. Skeptical at first, Ostrander ultimately decided that harvesting the sun on most of her 120-acre corn-and-soybeans farm south of Detroit would enable her to someday pass the land to her son. But the project proposed by Virginia-based…